Duke University Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

Computational Biology Seminar

The Computational Biology Seminar is a weekly series of seminars on topics in computational biology presented by invited speakers, Duke faculty and CBB doctoral and certificate graduate students.

Spring 2013 Schedule

Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
Place: 4233 French

Date Speaker Institution Title of Presentation
1/14 Greg Wray Duke University CBB Faculty & Dept of Biology "The evolution of human uniqueness:  a multi-omic approach"
1/21 No Seminar    
1/28 Lingling Zheng Duke University CBB Student / Lucas Group Biological pathway selection through Bayesian integrative modeling
2/4 Kris Wood Duke University Dept of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology "Engineering new tools to study and manipulate oncogenic signaling networks"
2/11 Dana Pe'er Columbia University Dept of Biological Sciences Revealing tumor heterogeneity between and within tumors
2/18 Katia Koelle Duke University CBB Faculty & Dept of Biology The effect of vaccination on influenza's rate of antigenic drift
2/25 Kyle Roberts Duke University CBB Student / Donald Group Novel Protein Design Algorithms with Applications to Cystic Fibrosis and HiV
3/4 Ken Dill Stony Brook University Depts of Physics & Chemistry / Director, Laufer Center for Physical & Quantitative Biology The principal of 'Maximum Caliber': Modeling dyamics on the nanoscale
3/11 No Seminar    
3/18 Galip Gurkan Yardimci Duke University CBB Student / Ohler Group "Prediction of genome-wide in vivo transcription factor binding using factor-specific DNase footprinting models"
3/25 C. Titus Brown Michigan State Depts of Computer Science & Engineering & Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Building better genomes, transcriptomes, and metagenomes with improved techniques for de novo assembly --an easier way to dot it.
4/1 Marisa Eisenberg University of Michigan School of Public Health Dept of Epidemiology. Building models of human disease dynamics using identifiability and parameter estimation
4/8 Jeff Chang University of Texas at Houston Medical School Genomic Dissection of the Cancer EMT Phenotype
4/15 Ashlee Benjamin Duke University CBB Student / Lucas Group "A Flexible Statistical Model for Alignment of Open-Platform Proteomics Data - Incorporating Ion Mobility and High Energy Data"
       
 

 

Fall 2012 Schedule 

Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
Place: 4233 French

 

Date Speaker Institution Title of Presentation
9/10 Laura Kavanaugh Syngenta
 "What it's like to be a Computational Biologist in Industry (and should I consider this career option)"
9/17 Bruce Donald Duke University CBB Faculty & Dept. of Computer Science Protein Interface Design, Cystic Fibrosis and HIV
9/24 Michael Deem Rice University Depts. of Bioengineering and Physics & Astronomy Evolution in the bacterial, archaeal, and jawed vertebrate immune systems
10/1 Rasmus Nielsen Berkeley Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics Detecting Natural Selection in Genome Wide Sequencing Data
10/8 Brian Bennett Duke University CBB Student / Muhkerjee/Furey Group Integrative Genomic Analysis using Gene Set Enrichment Analysis and Multi-Task Learning
10/15 No Seminar Fall Break  
10/22 Johan Paulsson Harvard Medical School Dept. of Systems Biology Mathematical and experimental frameworks to study fluctuations in cells
10/29 Yoav Gilad University of Chicago Dept. of Human Genetics MGM Sponsored New Location ***103 Bryan Research***
 "Gene Regulatory Variation Underlies Ecological Adaptations and Disease Susceptibility"
11/5 James Ferrell Stanford Depts. of  Chemical & Systems Biology ***New Location BioSci 111*** Bistability and trigger waves in mitosis
11/12 Jacob Frelinger Duke University CBB Student / Chan Group Registration of flow cytometry data for cross sample analysis
11/19 Paul Magwene Duke University CBB Faculty & Dept. of Biology "Applications and Analysis of Pooled High-throughput Sequencing Data"
11/26 Shirley Liu Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Dept. of Biostatistics & Computational Biology Computational Cancer Epigenetics, what can ChiP-seq and microarrays tell us?
12/3 Karen Adelman National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences "Genomic analyses of pausing of RNA Polymerase II:  new insights and implications for signal-responsiive gene expression"